Multiple lawsuits are filed for more than $500 billion accusing Yale, USC and more of [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 15, 2019 | Emily Crane

[C19fan]

Multiple lawsuits have been filed for more than $500 billion against elite universities and those implicated in the college admissions scandal that helped wealthy Americans cheat their children's way into school. Two Stanford students filed a $5 million class action suit on Wednesday claiming they were denied opportunities to get admitted to Yale and USC and have now had their degrees devalued in the wake of the recent charges.

[mewzilla]

I’m no lawyer, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I can’t see the standing thing working for dismissal. Damage was done, and these institutions won’t want to suggest that missing out on a degree from them won’t do you any harm.

I agree that settling opens one mother of a can of worms, though. ..

Heh heh heh. What a mess. No good options. These institutions are well and truly hoist.

[wny]

I don't think so. My daughter had 35/36 ACT scores, 2350 SAT. She was HS Valedictorian with 99.6 OA average, all AP & IB courses. she tutored calculus, speaks 2 languages, plays 2 musical instruments, state champion swimmer. several goody-two-shoes volunteer gigs. She was rejected by Princeton, Yale & Harvard after lengthy interviews. These schools brag about how many foreign students get in. One of the schools (Yale if I recall) actually published the breakdown of test scores of accepted students. many, many acceptees with scores hundreds and hundreds of points lower.

they simply do not want middle-class white kids.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Same here. It’s about time somebody brought these radical brainwashing institutions down a notch or two.

[Moonman62]

What a shame. I really despise these liberal indoctrination centers that are heavily subsidized by the taxpayers.

[Moonman62]

How did Boss Hogg the stupid gun grabber get into Harvard?

[Wuli]

That’s right, whenever you feel “aggrieved”, sue someone; a common American viral infection.

[montag813]

Hopefully this farce will help people realize how stupid and pointless college is for 80% of Americans.

[rb22982]

Or asians

[SMARTY]

Good idea-Honest, hard-working students had to fork over the money or get student loans-that assure them monstrous debt and grinding poverty, long after graduation.

These HONEST STUDENTS have a legitimate argument!

[unixfox]

Good. I hope they all suffer. Nothing but a bunch of Marxist indoctrination centers anyways.

[OKSooner]

How ‘bout Colombia and Harvard?

[grania]

One parent involved in the suit has a son with a 4.2 average who wasn't accepted at one of the schools. If they're accepting students (or have staff who are rigging the process) who are in the bottom 10% of the incoming class, and they've rejected students who would be in the upper quartile, how do they justify that? Keep in mind that lower 10% would be mostly students who fall below parameters.

Not all schools are like this. I've tutored excellent athletes who've had to get their Math SAT above 600 (preferably 650) to be considered.

[surrey]

They’re Stanford students and they’re complaining? Oh, cry me a river.

[grania]

This won't be a popular sentiment. I supported Kavanaugh getting the SC seat because of the disgusting tactics of those who opposed him. But I was fascinated and appalled at what we learned about the inbred, corrupt, entitled system that produces so many politicians, judges, and leaders in corporations and government. I wonder if that situation feeds into and reinforces the outrage we already have about the unfairness of the system.

There is nothing okay about what's been confirmed about the lives of the elite in their formative years.

[I want the USA back]

The institutions that push for communism to replace capitalism, are in love with money and will do anything to get more.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm not a lawyer, but I work with them all the time. I occasionally testify as an expert witness in legal matters, so I'm familiar with the legal process especially as it relates to civil law.

You claim that "damage was done," but except in a very narrow sense I don't see how any real damages were incurred by the rejected applicants. I haven't completed a college application in years, but I'm sure they're filled with all kinds of fine print saying something to this effect: "This application does not in any way represent a legal obligation on the part of this university to the applicant."

From a legal perspective, the only "damages" any of these applicants suffered was the financial loss of their application fees. Seriously. Other than that, the rejected applicants are no different than someone who signed a contract to buy a car on the lot of a car dealership, only to arrive on the appointed day to pick it up and find out that the salesman had sold it instead to one of his friends. If the customer put down a deposit the dealer is obligated to refund it, but the customer will never be able to successfully sue for "damages" related to the transaction.

[grania]

they simply don't want middle-class white kids

It became obvious in the 1980s. That's when public schools started saying "let's prep our kids for SATs, too, so they're not excluded for low scores." My first Math SAT Prep I taught was in 1985. Scores compared to the PSAT went up an average of just over 100 points in Math, about 70 in English. It doesn't sound possible, I know. There was absolutely no information before then about test taking or identifying basic skills to be perfected, so there was a lot of room for improvement.. Even back then, it didn't get them those top-tier acceptances. But it did get a lot of them very excellent scholarships (not loans) at second tier schools.

It was (and still is) a middle class working mostly white community.

That was over 30 years ago. This has been a war against the successful and motivated white middle class the US used to have. There's a whole lot of outrage built up. Perhaps the result of this will be to say that "elite" school diplomas will be a question mark about integrity instead of a golden ticket to the future.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is all fine and dandy but when are we going to go after politicians who send illegal aliens to “college” at U.S. taxpayer expense only because they are illegal alien, foreign nationals? That is just as much of a disgrace as this college scam BS being pimped so hard by the liberal “media”. IMHO.

[ProudFossil]

Good strategy. Sue for $500 billion and settle out of court for $1 billion. :)

No it is not. Sue for $500 billion and settle out of court for $450 billion.

[Alberta's Child]

If they're accepting students (or have staff who are rigging the process) who are in the bottom 10% of the incoming class, and they've rejected students who would be in the upper quartile, how do they justify that?

They do it all the time. It's called affirmative action.

The colleges don't need to justify any of this. Colleges are never transparent in their application review process, and anyone who has attended any of these schools will tell you that they don't just admit "the best and the brightest."